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Bicycle City sounds like a mythical Valhalla where bicycling enthusiasts go when they pass away.
In reality, a group of environmentally friendly developers are creating a Bicycle City in the countryside south of Columbia, South Carolina, where cars will be verboten and residents will ride their bikes or walk to get around.
The community is the idea of Joe Mellett, a Internet marketer who sold Education.org to Monster.com about four years ago to get the seed money for the project. But the project is far past the idea phase. Mellett and his co-developers are presenting their plans to the Lexington County Council this week and hope to get started in the fall.
The Bicycle City group already has bought 150 acres near the town of Gaston …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/25/bicycle-only-community-underway-in-south-carolina/
Italy's Ivan Basso surged up the steepest climb at this year's Giro d'Italia to win Stage 15 atop Monte Zolcolan on Sunday and leap-frog eight other cyclists into 3rd place.
Overall leader David Arroyo survived in the maglia rosa, although his days at the front appear numbered. Tuesday marks the beginning of the Giro's final hellish week highlighted by two high mountain stages and an individual time trial.
Basso, a 32-year-old Liquigas rider, slipped away from the leader's group along with Australia's Cadel Evans and Italy's Michele Scarponi. Basso and Evans dropped Scarponi, then paced each other for a few miles of the climb up Monte Zolcolan, an awesome 6-mile finish that rises 4,000 feet at an average 11% slope.
Along the way, the pair passed the final three members of a six-man breakaway that at one time had more than a 9-minute gap on the peloton.
With about 2 miles to go on the climb, Basso steadily began pulling away from Evans …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/23/monte-zolcolan-takes-its-toll-but-giro-leader-hangs-on/
The early favorites of the Giro d'Italia, such as Saturday's Stage 14 winner Vincenzo Nibali, started nibbling away at the huge leads gained by members of a breakaway earlier in the week.
Nibali and Ivan Basso (both of Liquigas), Cadel Evans (BMC), Michele Scarponi (Androni) all cut at least a minute-and-a-half off their deficits on the 127-mile race from Ferrara to Asolo. Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) and Carlos Sastre (Cervelo) finished closely behind them.
All but Scarponi and Basso are back into the top 10, but they still have huge time gaps to make up …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/22/big-names-at-giro-ditalia-rising-through-the-ranks/
With rain threatening and temperatures hovering in the low 40s, the 2010 Bike to Work Day in the Seattle area on Friday was a real test of road warrior commitment for bike commuters.
The tally at the Bellevue Commuter Station, one of 44 set up by the Cascade Bicycle Club throughout the Puget Sound region, was off compared to previous years. Early indications show numbers were down throughout the region.
Still, a steady stream of good-natured bicyclists making the commute over the Lake Washington bridges between Bellevue and Seattle stopped to pick up water bottles, energy bars and other hand-outs. For many, rain and cold mean nothing when bicycling to work.
Based on the rate of cyclists passing through early on…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/21/weather-dampens-turn-out-for-bike-to-work-day/
Team Saxo Bank's Richie Porte will wear the maglia rosa into the mountains of the Giro d'Italia as he protected the overall lead in Friday's Stage 13.
Manuel Belletti (Colnago) won the 138-mile race from Porto Recanti to Cesenatico in front of yet another breakaway at the Giro. His victory also marked the second day in a row that at Italian won the stage in his home country.
Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) broke the jinx in Stage 12 on Thursday to become the first Italian to win a Giro stage this year.
The peloton begins a grueling and decisive segment of the Giro starting on Saturday ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/21/gearing-up-for-tough-weekend-at-giro-ditalia/
Lance Armstrong dropped out of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California early in Thursday's Stage 5 not long after crashing.
About 15 cyclists went down just 4 miles after leaving Visalia for the 121-mile stage to Bakersfield.
According to text commentary from news sources, Armstrong received medical treatment at the scene of the accident and returned to the peloton with …
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[Updates with reaction from Armstrong, Hincapie and WADA]
In a series of e-mails written to cycling officials and sponsors disclosed by the Wall Street Journal and ESPN.com, Floyd Landis admits to doping to enhance his performance during his cycling career.
More explosive, however, are his assertions that Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie and David Zabriskie all participated in various forms of doping while they were together at the U.S. Postal Service cycling team.
Armstrong immediately rejected the accusations, but the World Anti-Doping Agency says it will investigate the charges.
Armstrong reacted before the beginning of Stage 5 of the Tour of California, with team manager Johann Bruyneel at his side:
“It's our word against his word. I like our word. We like our credibility. We have nothing to hide. Nothing to run from.” …
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The Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic sold out earlier than ever this year — on April 16 — catching off guard some folks who wanted to make the 200-mile ride.
The Cascade Bicycle Club has announced two ways that interested bicyclists can earn a spot in the July 17-18 event. One takes extra money. The other takes some extra time.
The club announced Wednesday that it's putting 10 registrations up for auction on eBay ….
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For the third year in a row, the League of American Bicyclists has ranked Washington state at the top of its list of Bicycle Friendly States.
That's quite an honor for bicycle advocates and state officials in the Emerald State, which has led the list ever since it was conceived in 2008.
Wisconsin and Maine follow in 2nd and 3rd place, according to the rankings announced Wednesday. Oregon dropped for the first time from 4th to 5th, supplanted by Minnesota.
Alabama held a firm grip on last place for the second year in a row. Other bottom feeders were New Mexico (46), West Virginia (47), Montana (48) and North Dakota (49). ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/19/washington-is-the-no-1-bicycle-friendly-state-in-2010/
A large breakaway, epic distance, multiple climbs and inclement weather all conspired to completely restructure the general classification of the Giro d'Italia as it reached its half-way point on Wednesday.
The turmoil elevated Tasmanian cyclist Richie Porte (Saxo Bank) 6 places to the 1st overall, while rival leaders Alexandre Vinokourov and Cadel Evans completely dropped out of the Top 10 after trailing the day's winners by some 12:30.
Beginning the day 2:26 behind Vinokourov, Porte is now about 10 minutes ahead of him in the overall rankings.
A prime example of the turbulance among the leaders is former Tour de France winner, Carlos Sastre of the Cervelo team. He rose to 8th place overall …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/19/chaotic-stage-11-reshuffles-overall-standings-at-giro-ditalia/
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